Drift Tengoku — October 2003

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English draft translations are available throughout this issue. Unclear or unreadable OCR remains flagged; these drafts have not received full image proofreading. The archive retains 310 scan files, including two duplicate captures, representing 308 unique pages.

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Page 162 · English draft

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  1. Chugoku’s strongest drivers gather for a major joint event! The winner of the closely fought head-to-head battle is Okayama’s wild man, Kenji Koretomo!
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  3. Across the country
  4. Travel journal
  5. From
  6. Okayama Prefecture
  7. Last month we covered the West Japan summer drift camp. As promised, this month we report on day two’s contest. The key is the combination of two influential Chugoku-region competitions! With double the prizes and prize money, experts from Chugoku and surrounding areas entered in force!
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  10. J-Cup ’03 Round 4 & Iwasaki Auto GP Round 2
  11. Date: Sunday, July 27. Venue: Bihoku Highland Circuit [OCR damaged]. Organizers: J-Cup office & Iwasaki Auto. Entries: 96 cars. Entry fee: ¥15,000.
  12. From now on it is my… ADVAN [separate logo merged in OCR].
  13. Winner
  14. …era!
  15. Extremely close tandem drifting erupts!
  16. The twin class was won by Fujio from Crazy Night and Iwasaki from Iwasaki Auto. Iwasaki also organizes the West Japan summer drift camp, but since only J-Cup offers the twin class, he entered it as an ordinary participant.
  17. Jun Iwasaki [given-name continuation may follow].
  18. Manabu Fujio (Crazy Night)
  19. Winner [OCR damaged].
  20. Kenji Koretomo (Crazy Night)
  21. Chugoku’s strongest drivers gathered—96 cars! Combining two major events made this one of the region’s biggest drift contests. J-Cup and Iwasaki Auto GP are well-known annual series in Chugoku; even separately they attract [car counts damaged]. Joining them made the entrants especially keen. Win among this field and nobody could complain if you called yourself Chugoku’s number one! A total of 96 cars entered. Alongside leading local teams such as Crazy Night and Ultra Gloover came challengers from other areas, including Shinichiro Azuma of Kyushu’s Otokojuku and Shinji Matsukawa of Hiroshima’s Clubmans [name readings provisional]. Three young drivers we had featured as promising newcomers were entered too. With so many famous names, judges and spectators could imagine who might advance, but nobody could predict the winner. The intense contest went to Crazy Night’s Koretomo, the FC driver featured in January 2003’s promising newcomers column. He was a contender, but since his magazine appearance he had struggled to get results. “Kore…” [continues on the next page].
  22. Iwasaki Auto
  23. [Unclear: headline fragment.]
  24. [Unclear: overlapping headline fragments mentioning 96 cars and Chugoku.]
  25. Photography: Masahisa Fujita [name reading provisional].
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